Secret - View different demos. | |
| In order to see different demos of how a stage is played out in Ikaruga, change the monitor type settings before going into demo mode. The different settings will show these types of demos:Horizontal 1: This setting will show beginning tactics. Horiztonal 2: This setting will show more advanced tactics. Horizontal 3: This setting will show advanced tactics or bullet eater tactics. Vertical 1&2: These settings will show increased difficulties. | |
Secret - Make the pause menu disappear | |
| While playing the game, press start and a pause menu will come up. Press and hold X and Y together to make the menu disappear. | |
Secret - Extra Continues | |
| For every hour of playing your amount of continues will go up to a maximum of 9 continues/6 hours. After 7 hours, you'll have unlimited continues. | |
Easter Egg - Bullet Eater | |
| In order to receive the "Dot Eater!" ranking upon completing a level, do not fire the Ikaruga even once. This means that you can't kill normal enemies or the boss of the stage, but rather you will have to dodge/absorb enemy fire in order to complete the level. This ranking does nothing but add extra challenge to the game. | |
Unlockable - Unlocking Galleries and Game Mode Option | |
| Gallery 2 | Play the game for 10 hours or clear the game on any difficulty setting. |
| Game Mode Option | Play the game for 20 hours or beat the game on Normal without continuing. |
| Gallery 1 | Play the game for 5 hours or complete the Trial Mode without continuing |
| Sound Test | Play the game for 15 hours or beat the game on Easy without continuing. |
Unlockable - Unlock stages for Practice and Conquest mode | |
| To unlock a stage for Practice mode, it must first be reached without continuing. The stage is only unlocked for the difficulty level it was played on (ie: reaching stage 3 on Easy will not unlock the Normal or Hard versions). Conquest mode is unlocked the same way, except it doesn\'t matter what difficulty level is used. | |
